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Unboxing a 1984 Atari Peripheral, 25 Years Later
Harry writes "When you come across a 1984 Atari Touch Tablet for sale cheap--in the original, unopened box--it would be a crime against computer history not to buy it, open it, install it, and use it, and to document the whole process with photos and commentary."
Frankly, the entire "minty-mint" collection mania is pathological. The perceived sale value boils down to "how much can I fleece a clueless schlub for?". And that's illogical.
That is what socialists call subjective valuation. It's a natural instinctive behavior for all mammals, and it's at the core of capitalism; capitalism wouldn't be what it is without it, concentration of wealth and all. Socialists identify it as a key ethical failing of all human economies, and set voluntary adoption of objective valuation of goods AND labor as a primary goal of a cooperative, rather than competitive, economic system. We haven't evolved to a point yet where a pure socialist economy is possible; Communism tried to use the government to create that economy through force, and that failed miserably. Our own (American) economy uses varying degrees of force and threat of force to impose socialistic controls and limits on our economy, with varying degrees of failure. It has to be collectively voluntary or it's hardly more ethical. We're not there yet.